A specialist in ultra-fast electronic artwork transfer has helped a toy manufacturer get artwork for packaging, point-of-sale material and even instruction booklets from the UK to Asia in hours instead of the day or more previously taken by courier.
Wacnet has also helped customer FEVA cut its artwork delivery costs by a quarter annually.
FEVA develops, manufactures, markets and distributes toys throughout UK and Europe. Due to continued growth, and the growing trend for transferring manufacturing processes to Asia, FEVA decided to establish a Hong Kong office, setting up agreements with local manufacturers to locally manage product development, engineering and production. Consequently, fast transfer of artwork files became an essential daily routine.
Having found traditional courier methods too costly and time-consuming, FEVA discovered Wacnet, an Oxfordshire-based artwork delivery company experienced in sending files securely to Asia within hours.
Wacnet users can load artwork up to 2Gb in size directly onto the Wacnet (internet-based) Loading Bay, which then sends them to the destination country. The recipient Wacnet Asia Print Bureau then uploads the files and burns them to CD-Rom before hand delivering the package to the destination address within a “guaranteed” five hours.
FEVA designer Matt Emmett says: “We work with specific manufacturers in Asia and have artwork discs sent to their repro houses daily, so needed a system that allowed us to do this. Our Hong Kong office is in the same building as our main manufacturer, so numerous exchanges take place between our UK office, the Hong Kong site and our partners.”
FEVA is now using Wacnet for all its products, packaging and POS. Having previously used DHL, it is now saving 25% annually on artwork delivery.
